The future of the desktop PC: evolve or else

by Dean Evans at Friday 24th July, 2009 at 7:16 am [0 comments]

Over on the AMD blog, Senior Advanced Marketing Manager Simon Solotko has been musing about the future of the desktop PC. And whether it has one.

One computing path, suggests Solotko, is mobile computing. And this doesn’t just embrace the laptop and the netbook, but portable media players, digital cameras and smartphones. Ultimately, all this gadgety should coalesce into one portable device.

The other is a constant computing resource with massive amounts of storage that the afforementioned portable devices can tap into. It’s this idea of a “central computer” that Solotko believes could be the future of the desktop PC.

“Without such a change,” he writes, “I fear the digital home will stagnate while the desktop PC becomes a candidate for the endangered species list.

“I believe that the evolved PC must evolve into a digital nexus, a centralized group assistant instrumental in simplifying ease of use for our entire home computing and entertainment experience.

“The data is a flashing red light – the smaller devices are rapidly out-competing the desktop for share of wallet and share of mind. I suggest that a shared objective, a future state which directs our thought, our design and engineering will help speed the transformation before it is too late.”

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